How to End Wars Well
Though we start wars anticipating an end, they still catch us off guard. “We kept fighting these wars — the Gulf War, the Iraq War,” said Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose to the crowd at The Actors’ Gang. “We kept getting surprised by the endings.” In an event co-presented with the UCLA Burkle Center for International Affairs, Rose, author of How Wars End:Why We Always Fight the Last Battle, chatted with Burkle Center director Kal Raustiala about why we start wars without ever quite ending them well, and how …
